THE LIGHTING COLLECTION
Patience
Patience is an unusual floor lamp made from base mounted antique wooden prosthetic legs.
The legs are thought to have been made around 1915 in Roehampton at Queen Mary's Hospital.
Between 1914 and 1921 over 41,000 British soldiers lost at least one limb as a result of their injuries.
Queen Mary's Hospital was set-up in order to deal with the vast number of men awaiting limbs where arms and legs were made on-site in the basement and in huts.
